David Mellor est politicien britannique.
“The press – the popular press – is drinking in the Last Chance Saloon.”
Quoted in Roy Greenslade, "A decade of diplomacy," http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2001/feb/05/mondaymediasection.pressandpublishing The Guardian (2001-02-05) <br class="br">Comment made in 1989 after a series of salacious stories in the tabloid press.
Quoted in Brian Cathcart, "Were you still up for Portillo?" (Penguin Books, 1997), pp. 63-4
From a speech following his defeat in the 1997 General Election and directed at Sir James Goldsmith.
Quoted in Anil Dawar, "'Build a tower block? Not in our dockyard,'" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1519779/Build-a-tower-block-Not-in-our-dockyard.htmlThe Telegraph (2006-05-30) <br class="br">Comment on the proposed construction of a 17-storey block of flats near his home in the St Katharine Docks, London.
“Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick-skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.”
Question Time, BBC1 (1992-12-03).
Quoted in The Independent (1992-11-03) following his resignation in September of that year.
